The Guardian reported on analysis by the Labour party of the English Housing Survey shows a huge increase in the number of people renting homes from private landlords who believe they will never own their own home. It’s a far-from-great situation for many people who feel they can’t get on the housing ladder and interesting to see politicians using data as evidence. Let’s see how this affects policy.
Planning from the Census
In an example of data-driven policy, the Birmingham Mail pakistan rcs data reported on Solihull Council’s accounting and forward plans. Notable is the fact that the council is reported to be building on data from the 2011 UK Census on the ethnic makeup of the authority’s population to project the growth in population of black, Asian and other minority ethnic residents in the future.
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Disability Perception Gap
THIIS (The Homecare Industry Information Service) highlighted research done by the charity Scope into the differing perceptions between disabled and non-disabled people around negative attitudes towards those with disabilities. The research, using the British Social Attitudes Survey , revealed some huge gaps in perceptions and some important information about the negative impacts on disable people of negative attitudes and discrimination.